Consuming a Web Service in Saba using .NET

Consuming a Web Service in Saba happens in two steps:

1) Authorization of the consumer via a service exposed by Saba and available at the following address:

http://www.saba.com/XML/authenticate.wsdl

This service returns a certificate to use in step 2

2) Invoke the web service exposed by your installation of Saba using the certificate

To make life easier with step 1, Saba distributes a .NET assembly that is a wrapper around that service; this wrapper contains two classes in the Saba.Platform namespace:

• SabaLogin, that you should use for authentication


• InfoServiceClient, that you should use for invoking your own service
 

A quick example of how to use the above classes in C#:

string endpointURL = @"http://your-saba-host-name/axis/services/InfoService";

string username = "admin";

string password = "welcome";

// get an authentication certificate

string certificate = SabaLogin.Authenticate(endpointURL, username, password);

// invoke the "updateUsername" service

Hashtable requestParams = new Hashtable();

requestParams["old_username"] = "JSMITH";

requestParams["new_username"] = "HPOTTER";

XmlDocument response = InfoServiceClient.CallService(

   endpointURL,

   "updateUsername",

   certificate,

   requestParams);

requestParams is a map of parameters to pass to the service (no generics yet, Saba is still on the old-fashioned .NET 1.1 code...)

 

Communication is over SOAP, no REST services in Saba yet.

 

Enjoy!

Vriendelike groete

@stefanotempesta